City wins grant to allow mental health center to move forward | Local News
MOULTRIE, Ga. — A symbolic verify marked the following stage in advancement to mental wellness expert services in Moultrie.
The Town of Moultrie has been accredited for a Community Improvement Block Grant of $712,746, in accordance to a press release previous 7 days. Town Supervisor Pete Dillard, Town Councilman Daniel Dunn and Metropolis Clerk Tina Coleman acquired an honorary examine from the Georgia Department of Community Affairs.
The grant is currently being employed to acquire and renovate a building for use by Ga Pines, the state-contracted psychological well being service provider for the location.
“We are happy that the City of Moultrie is a person of the recipients,” Dillard reported in the push launch. “Moultrie options to use $712,746 in CDBG funds to receive and renovate a creating for the new Colquitt County Mental Overall health Center. This job will provide improved aid and service to improved tackle the mental health and fitness needs of Moultrie and Colquitt County.”
The County Board of Commissioners was also introduced with a verify for $684,183 to use for road and drainage advancements on Coy Cox Street.
The announcement arrives just after a very long wait around interval for Dillard and the rest of the council. Dillard said in a earlier posting of The Observer that the grant cash were being “all we’re ready on” in regards to the mental wellbeing heart. The present Georgia Pines facility, located on North Primary Avenue, has been the Thomasville-dependent mental health and fitness facility’s only Moultrie site.
“They will need something considerably additional updated and purposeful,” Dillard claimed in an job interview Monday. “We’re joyful the new facility will beef up the mental health products and services we can offer within just Moultrie.”
The building that will house the mental wellness middle, positioned on Second Avenue at 1st Street Southwest, is currently owned by the Southwest Ga Lender. The town ideas to buy the setting up then lease it to Ga Pines for $1 a month, in accordance to Dillard.
Robert Hurn, CEO of Ga Pines, mentioned the financial institution will be leaving some furnishings in the setting up and only items like “files, desks, chairs and general workplace equipment” will require to be moved.
“We are enthusiastic to upgrade our mental health and fitness, mental developmental incapacity and substance abuse service in Moultrie. I want to thank Dillard, the council, the county and the local community for their ongoing assist,” Hurn stated in an job interview Monday.
The Colquitt County Board of Commissioners will also be donating $15,000 to aid with reconstruction or other transferring expenditures, in accordance to Hurn.
Even though Dillard hopes to have the facility open by December, the town is still ready on the funds to be transferred from the condition to invest in the facility. Hurn also reported that he desired to have anything “ADA compliant right before any openings can be established in stone.”
If you would like to contact the Ga Pines Moultrie place, you can connect with, 229-891-7375.
